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A GRANDMA’S TALESue Hampton

Sue Hampton — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:35:28 +0000

In a downmarket flat in a comfortable English town there lived a shy grandma. She lived with the guilt of breaking her children’s hearts and she didn’t suppose it would ever ease. But now that she had grandbabies she was determined to give them all the love, fun and care her slightly creaky body [...]

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Occupy TimeBarbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:26 +0000

A week ago the world outside my window in Ottawa was covered in snow. But today—in the month when people make resolutions, seek to realize resolutions, or reject resolutions—it is raining. I can hear the rain as I write. It would be a soothing sound if it did not also sound like the chronicle [...]

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Q&A with Jessica Gaitán JohannessonToby Litt

Jessica Gaitán Johannesson — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:00:15 +0000

Although it looks quite slim, The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response is a really big, ambitious, global book that speaks very clearly to lots of aspects of the present moment. It insists on an intimate relation between the individual body and the whole environment. It’s very moving and full of insights. How [...]

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Why the Climate Crisis is a Health CrisisKatie Percival

Katie Percival — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:00:22 +0000

A short while ago I cared for a patient who was admitted to the hospital with breathlessness. He’d developed heart failure, a condition with a cruel name which describes a state where the heart muscle ceases to pump efficiently enough to deliver blood and oxygen to the cells that need them, often leading to [...]

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The Month of Emergencies – poemRebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:31 +0000

7.9 inches of rain fell in Central Park last night dead cicadas on the crosswalk their bodies bunched in brittle knots sticky candy sky bright with grief branches submerged by the weight of our silence a letter unread a door closed firmly & [...]

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Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency | edited by Kate Simpson

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:25:43 +0000

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All The Feelings Under the Sun: how to deal with climate change | Leslie Davenport with illustrations by Jessica Smith

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:11:38 +0000

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My Tipping PointSally O'Reilly

Sally O'Reilly — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:00:18 +0000

It happened on the 8.10 from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly. It was a Tuesday in February 2019. The train was zooming through the outskirts of London. The carriage smelled of aftershave and Costa coffee, there was the tap-tap of laptop keyboards and pre-work chitchat as normal people headed to normal meetings. I was going [...]

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Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate EmergencyKate Simpson

Kate Simpson — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:00:10 +0000

Can you tell us a little more about the anthology ‘Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency’ why and how did it come about? Was there any particular ‘trigger’ that compelled you to edit this collection? 2021 has been such a pivotal year for the planet, and it brought together many key events [...]

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